http://arcade.stanford.edu/category/tags/tragedy The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en-ac http://arcade.stanford.edu/eliot-rex <p>In Alex Gibney's documentary &quot;Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer,&quot; which is now available on Netflix's &quot;instant queue,&quot; the ex-governor of New York at times refers to himself as the protagonist of a modern Greek tragedy, which caused me to puzzle over which tragic hero of classical antiquity would be his most fitting role model.</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/eliot-rex">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/eliot-rex#comments Alex Gibney Eliot Spitzer hubris tragedy http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/1170 Thu, 03 Mar 2011 12:58:04 -0800 William Egginton 1170 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/social-network <p>I was intrigued by this (<a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2010/12/27/1013213108.abstract" target="_blank" title="The abstract&#039;s the least abstract part of it!">abstract</a>) mathematical analysis of structural balance in social groups because I was teaching <i>Richard II</i> all week, and thinking about my favorite book on Shakespeare, Richard Decker's <i>Anatomy of the Screenplay.</i></p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/social-network">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/social-network#comments Dan Decker fanfiction terminology King Lear Milton OTP OTT Paradise Lost Richard II Shakespeare Simmel sociology structural balance tragedy William Empson http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/1127 Mon, 17 Jan 2011 21:26:42 -0800 William Flesch 1127 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/aziz-ansari-vs-kanye-west-difference-between-musicians-comedians <p>The difference between comedians &amp; musicians is a matter of self-esteem. I'm not sure who has more, and who has less.</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/aziz-ansari-vs-kanye-west-difference-between-musicians-comedians">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/aziz-ansari-vs-kanye-west-difference-between-musicians-comedians#comments Aziz Ansari Comedy Internet Poem Kanye West The Problem With Glamour tragedy http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/576 Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:47:10 -0800 Alec Hanley Bemis 576 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/you%E2%80%99ve-got-indie-rock-my-hip-hop-stray-thoughts-about-kid-cudi-video-misreadings-of-great-gatsby All over the land you can hear hipsters saying, "You've got hip-hop in my indie rock," and all over the hip-hop nation, they are saying in return "You've got indie rock in my hip-hop." I've been meaning to write a bold, brilliant essayistic statement about <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWMM7HPeTHQ">this phenomenon</a>.<p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/you%E2%80%99ve-got-indie-rock-my-hip-hop-stray-thoughts-about-kid-cudi-video-misreadings-of-great-gatsby">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/you%E2%80%99ve-got-indie-rock-my-hip-hop-stray-thoughts-about-kid-cudi-video-misreadings-of-great-gatsby#comments Dirty Projectors Hip-Hop Kanye West Kid Cudi MGMT P. Diddy Ratatat Solange Knowles The Problem With Glamour tragedy http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/510 Sun, 13 Dec 2009 14:07:33 -0800 Alec Hanley Bemis 510 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/resisting-tragedy-and-satire-don-quixote As I teach <i>Don Quixote</i> once again, I am struck by how difficult it is to avoid converting the book into either a tragedy or a satire.  Auerbach should provide a remedy, but his discussion of the novel's &quot;gay wisdom&quot; does not seem to speak to students.<p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/resisting-tragedy-and-satire-don-quixote">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/resisting-tragedy-and-satire-don-quixote#comments Auerbach Close Don Quixote literary criticism satire teaching tragedy http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/64 Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:36:23 -0700 Ricardo Padrón 64 at http://arcade.stanford.edu